HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS is dedicated to ensuring that all our work is carried out safely, with a high level of integrity and quality workmanship. Our aim is to ensure every employee, sub-contractor, customer, and member of the public is protected from health hazards by applying quality safety standards in everything we do.
This is achieved by maintaining our Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) and ensuring it complies with the ISO 45001:2018 which covers the activities of our operation.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 

TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS is dedicated to ensuring that all our work is carried out safely, with a high level of integrity and quality workmanship. Our aim is to ensure every employee, sub-contractor, customer, and member of the public is protected from health hazards by applying quality safety standards in everything we do.

This is achieved by maintaining our Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) and ensuring it complies with ISO 45001:2018 which covers the activities of our operation.

The Occupational Health and Safety Management System objective is to eliminate work-related injury and illness by:

  • Conforming to legislative requirements, being the Act, Regulations or Codes of Practice.
  •  Identifying hazards in the workplace.
  •  Assessing risks associated with identified hazards.
  •  Putting control measures in place to minimise the risk.
  •  Reviewing controls to ensure they remain effective.
  •  Implementing safe work systems such as Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS).
  •  Communicating safety issues to the team through scheduled toolbox talks.
  •  Competent supervision and training for all TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS team.
  •  Program auditing ensuring aspects of the OHSMS is functioning correctly.
  •  Periodic reviews to continuously improve the OHSMS.
  •  Involving all the team for feedback on the effective implementation of enhancements.

TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS employees, sub-contractors, and customers are asked to commit to our “Zero Harm” objective and make our work sites a safer – healthier place to work.

Please comply with our safe work practices and report unsafe conditions to your TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS manager. Your commitment will ensure everyone stays safe while at work and we value your contribution to safety.

Tom Rotumah

Managing Director
TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS
Date: January 2022
Review date: January 2024

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Tom Rotumah

Company Director & MD
Tom is a proud Indigenous man growing up in the Bundjalung Nation; and is a long serving member of the local Aboriginal land council, he is a strong advocate for Aboriginal education, skills training, and serves as a business role model, Tom is passionate about creating job opportunities and developing effective pathways into ongoing sustainable employment. 

Tom maintains a strong connection to country, community and culture and knows with his influence he can inspire our young Indigenous people and make a difference to their self – esteem and self – belief to achieve their goals, securing their future careers within the communities they live in.

Shane Richards

Company Director & CEO

Shane brings an extensive career in senior management roles to TLC. HYGIENE MATTERS, specialising in sales and marketing and product development, he co-founded “Get it Done Services” in 2013 a company that quickly became a trusted business partner to some of the country’s biggest blue-chip companies.

In 2017, Shane co-founded TLC Commercial a company that supplies a range of plant-derived safe cleaning products across the country. Shane believes that our communities still face the challenges of how to educate people on the importance of good hygiene, in times of deadly viruses and nasty germs it is clear something needs to be done.

Mark Richards

Company Director
Mark has held senior management roles for past 30 years and takes pride in developing his team into industry leaders and highly effective executives. Mark has an extensive background in fresh food handling and sanitation working with Australia’s largest retailers introducing hygiene manuals and standard operating procedures for fresh food departments.

Mark’s passion for good hygiene and an environment free of germs and toxic chemicals has led to his desire to work in the hygiene industry and make a difference to people’s health.

Our Mission

To deliver a hygienically clean, safe environment free of germs and viruses for all our clients